The Roundtable Award winners for the year's best acting

Out of 31 nominations for outstanding acting in the annual Roundtable Awards, eight were chosen for recognition Sunday night in the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable's annual awards ceremony. Actors' Theatre, Curtain Players, Emerald City Players, Gallery Players and Solstice Theatre Company, Theatre Daedalus and Weathervane Playhouse all had 2010 productions recognized in the acting category of the Roundtable Awards.

(Caption: Anthony Dunning as Tom Collins, left, with Brian Wells as Angel in Emerald City Players' 2010 production of the musical Rent. Photographer: Dale Bush)

And the best-acting Roundtable winners are... Emily Bach, who played the title role in Curtain Players' Hedda Gabler; Janetta Davis, who played mother Amanda Wingfield in Actors' Theatre's The Glass Menagerie; Anthony Dunning, who played Tom Collins in Emerald City Players' Rent; Ken Erney, who appeared as Father Jack in Solstice Theatre Company's Dancing at Lughnasa. Plus, Danielle Mann, who sang The Ladies Who Lunch as Joanne in Gallery Players' Company; Jeremy Ryan Brown, as aspiring screenwriter Ian Carlyle in Theatre Daedalus' 29 Bells; Elizabeth Wheeler, who played the lead role of witch Barbara Allen in Actors' Theatre's Dark of the Moon; and the entire bubbly ensemble in Weathervane Playhouse's Hairspray.

Out of 31 nominations for outstanding acting in the annual Roundtable Awards, eight were chosen for recognition Sunday night in the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable's annual awards ceremony. Actors' Theatre, Curtain Players, Emerald City Players, Gallery Players and Solstice Theatre Company, Theatre Daedalus and Weathervane Playhouse all had 2010 productions recognized in the acting category of the Roundtable Awards.

(Caption: Anthony Dunning as Tom Collins, left, with Brian Wells as Angel in Emerald City Players' 2010 production of the musical Rent. Photographer: Dale Bush)

And the best-acting Roundtable winners are... Emily Bach, who played the title role in Curtain Players' Hedda Gabler; Janetta Davis, who played mother Amanda Wingfield in Actors' Theatre's The Glass Menagerie; Anthony Dunning, who played Tom Collins in Emerald City Players' Rent; Ken Erney, who appeared as Father Jack in Solstice Theatre Company's Dancing at Lughnasa. Plus, Danielle Mann, who sang The Ladies Who Lunch as Joanne in Gallery Players' Company; Jeremy Ryan Brown, as aspiring screenwriter Ian Carlyle in Theatre Daedalus' 29 Bells; Elizabeth Wheeler, who played the lead role of witch Barbara Allen in Actors' Theatre's Dark of the Moon; and the entire bubbly ensemble in Weathervane Playhouse's Hairspray.

(Caption: Janetta Davis as Amanda Wingfield, right, with Dayle Towarnicky as Amanda's daughter Laura in Actors' Theatre's production of The Glass Menagerie. Credit: John S. Kuhn)

More than 50 central Ohio theater productions were nominated in various categories of the Roundtable Awards,presented annually by the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable. Only 18 winners were announced Sunday during the Theater Awards Night at the Jewish Community Center, reflecting a policy change by the Roundtable to be more selective in its competitive awards categories than in recent years. Thus, those who won for acting, directing, design, technical work or overall outstanding production should feel doubly honored.

(Credit: Joe Bishara as John the Witch Boy, a Roundtable Award nominee for best acting, and Liz Wheeler, a Roundtable winner for best acting as Barbara Allen in Actors' Theatre's production of Dark of the Moon Photo credit: Melanie Miles)

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